Myself and Julia, another new teacher to the school, offered back in February to run production this year and we had a lot of fun over school holidays writing a script. Think Night at the Museum mixed with your typical school play.
there were auditions, rehearsals, prop building, scenery building, teachers in classrooms worked with their kids on each scene and then we had to teach the whole school a song to sing at the end. i got some Canadian content in by doing a simplified version of The Barenaked Ladies - The Big Bang song.
some odd things came up for example how do you transport a giant dinosaur backdrop from a classroom to a school a few blocks away. this thing was huge, he was designed and drawn by a wonderful parent, Julia and I (and Julia's hubbie) painted the big bits but the artist finished his details.
he wouldn't fit in any of the cars any teacher owned, renting a trailer seemed foolish so i did what any sensible teacher would do...i used a bunch of kids.
we drew more than a few stares, and the gusts of wind in Wellington made for some exciting moments. but we made it!
the production itself was awesome...well i'm pretty sure it was, i've never seen it, i was the backstage coordinator. Blaise taped it for us (and the school) but i haven't seen the tape. Mark the principal said it was the best he had seen (but then again it's his job to say that ^^bb) and i totally think he's right.
thanks to everyone who helped make it awesome.
